It looks like a D20 wrapped in iguana leather and filled with caramel and chocolate sprinkles. It’s actually a rheavirus, also known as cafeteriavirus. It’s in the Mimiviridae… Read the rest “Science Art: Cafeteria virion by the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics ViralZone.”
SciTech Daily reports on scientists from Israel and China who have discovered a molecule nicknamed DIM that reduces biofilms that cause dental plaque by 90%. The molecule, if added to toothpaste… Read the rest “Cavity-killing breakthrough uses strep-fighting molecule.”
The Guardian introduces us to a new group of cyanobacteria that live in volcanic hot springs in Italy and America’s Rocky Mountains and that feast on carbon dioxide — offering… Read the rest “Volcanic bacteria can eat CO2. Lots of it, and fast.”
EurekAlert presents the findings of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s John DeLong, who has found the first known virovore – a microorganism that feeds on viruses:
… Read the rest “Nebraska researcher identifies the first known virus-eating organism.”DeLong and
Phys.org passes along research led by Dr. Katerina Johnson of Oxford and Dr. Karli Watson of UC Boulder, who found that the more social a monkey is, the healthier its gut biome is – which… Read the rest “Good friendships make a healthier gut biome (in monkeys, at least).”
The Scientist reports on mice fed a high-fat diet, whose children and grandchildren still felt the effects in social behavior and overall health:
… Read the rest “A mother’s diet can affect children’s – and grandchildren’s – behavior.”High-fat diets have previously been shown
Reuters enlightens a pandemic-weary world with news of a discovery of new life in the icy wastes of Antarctica. Unfortunately, the Chilean scientists study the novel bacteria say they’re… Read the rest “Antibiotic-resistant bacteria discovered in Antarctica. The question is: Will they stay there?”
Science News reveals the secret that makes Clostridium difficile infections so tough to treat – an outer barrier called “the S layer” that protects the gut bacteria… Read the rest ““Difficult” bacteria has chainmail to protect it from antibiotics.”
Science News is not panicking at all about the prospect of robots that can replicate copies of themselves that can then replicate copies of themselves:
… Read the rest “Living robots – “xenobots” – can reproduce themselves.”“This is an incredibly exciting breakthrough,”
Discover magazine discusses an unusual problem we haven’t had to face yet. How will Mars colonists handle their first funerals in an environment where human bodies don’t … Read the rest “Planning for a funeral on Mars.”
New Scientist reveals the cost of building a brain from scratch has just gone way, WAY down:
… Read the rest “We can grow brain tissue in a $5 microchip. (And it’s reusable.)”The device, dubbed a “microfluidic bioreactor”, is a 4-by-6-centimetre chip that includes small
Eurekalert introduces the next generation of living robots. Tufts University biologists and computer scientists have created a second generation of tiny, biological machines they’re… Read the rest ““Xenobots” are tiny robots made from living cells – self-healing swarms that can form bodies… and memories.”
This is not an alien forest. It is also not a picture of the COVID19 virus. It’s an illustration from 2016 of another coronavirus, and specifically of the spike proteins… Read the rest “Science Art: Coronavirus spike protein structure, by David Veesler, University of Washington,2016”
An image of yeast, originally made by NASA (though the context is now unclear, since the web page Wikimedia Commons sourced the photo from no longer exists).
The name “Hefezellen”… Read the rest “Science Art: Hefezellen”
BBC is not intimidating us all with news that researchers with the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology have treated a colony of dormant microbes from the bottom of the South… Read the rest “Scientists have woken up 100-million-year-old microbes.”
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